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In this article, I trace a nuanced interchange between Euripides’ Helen, Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae, and Euripides’ Orestes that contains a previously overlooked example of Aristophanic paratragedy and Euripides’ ...

This study focuses on what we know about women in Bronze Age Crete (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Rather than tracing ancient Minoan women through time, period by period, this study takes the point of view of the women themselves, ...

Younger, John G.(Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 1979)

This short study augments Younger 1978 (AJA 82, 285-299) by investigating elements of the Mycenae-Vapheio Lion Group's style in seals that impressed sealings in Crete. It is postulated that the M-V Lion Group started in ...

This summarizes the first three years of recent archaeological work at the Minoan site of Gournia. The main goals of the recent excavations have been to identify buildings and finds belonging to the periods prior to the ...

This fanciful study compares the two Linear A roundel inscriptions (ca. 1600 BCE) from the nearby sites of Gournia and Pyrgos and suggests that, if they are related in subject matter, they might refer to the shipment of ...

In this thesis, I argue that funeral processions were practiced at Knossos between LMII and LMIIIB, particularly in conjunction with the chamber tombs that emerged during this period. In conjunction with this, I argue that ...

The display contexts of the bronze statues of legendary heroes, Horatius Cocles and Cloelia, in the Roman Forum influenced the representation of these heroes in ancient texts. Their statues and stories were referenced by ...

The moment when Minoans became comfortable enough with their environment that they felt in control of it can be pinpointed to the beginning of the Neopalatial period (MM III or ca. 1700 BCE). By that time Minoan art registers ...

Younger, John G.(American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2009-01-01)

Technical observations on the sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
allow a reconstruction of their appearance at installation and of the major
changes made afterward. At installation, many sculptures were ...

In elegy 4.9, Propertius connects the story of Hercules' transvestism to some of Rome's most ancient and venerable sites: the Ara Maxima, the subject of the poem's aition, and the sanctuary of the Bona Dea, where the poem's ...

Horace's Satire 1.5 encapsulates two of the Satires' major themes: friendship and aesthetics. This paper explores the poem's engagement with Epicureanism in connection with these themes. Through extended evocation of ...

This article examines Ismene's nightmare in book 8 of Statius's Thebaid by contextualizing it within the epic's narrative, comparing it with the dream narrations of other female characters in epic poetry, and aligning it ...

This paper considers key principles and strategies in producing a translation of Homer's Iliad that succeeds for a wide audience both as poetic text and in performance. The author's translation of the last c. 100 lines of ...

From at least as early as Varro, Roman scholars and grammarians occupy themselves with cataloguing peculiar instances of grammatical gender. The practice, with little extant precedent in Greek tradition, finds the grammarians ...

The article anteeo, written by Wilhelm Bannier, was published in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) in 1901. This entry has been rewritten according to contemporary standards at the institute and edited at each step in ...